Who can file here from 31 August 2026
Canadian citizens and residents living in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. British Columbia, Alberta and Yukon belong to the consulate general in Vancouver. The dividing line comes from the embassy’s own infographic of June 2025; the forum version that “western Manitoba files in Vancouver” is wrong.
Plus eleven Caribbean countries for which Ottawa is the only post: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. We have no filing practice from there.
What Ottawa will take as “permanent residence” the post has not announced. Before 31 August the embassy accepted any document with an address on it; its written answer to one applicant ran “anything with your address on it: an electricity bill, a driving licence”. Whether that is still enough for a citizen, and what a foreign national with a PR card or a work permit should show, the first decisions will tell. We have not seen a single case of a foreign national resident in Canada.
The post’s page from July 2024
The DTV page on the embassy site is an image from the Thai foreign ministry marked “Revised 16 July 2024”, and it has not changed since. It shows a fee of “10,000 THB” against the real 650 CAD, and a proof-of-current-location document that was deleted from the e-Visa form on 31 August. Not a word about a criminal record certificate, not a single announcement about the 31 August rule. A Canadian who assembles a package from their own embassy’s site will assemble the 2024 package and run into the form. We assemble the package for the form.
How filing works
- Everything runs online through the e-Visa portal: “in-person filing is no longer available”. The embassy does not correct the application after filing, wrong data means a refusal with no refund of the fee, and it reserves the right to refuse without explanation. File two months before the trip, and no earlier than three.
- The fee is 650 CAD, set by embassy announcement No. 7/2567 of July 2024. At the ECB rate on 3 September 2026 that is about 15,500 THB, 55% above the general fee of 10,000 THB — the most expensive DTV fee of every post we have checked. Legalising a document at the embassy costs 30 CAD per stamp.
- Timeline per the embassy site: up to 25 working days in high season. In cases from 2024–2026, from a day to 20 days, usually around two weeks; the post’s reputation among applicants is “sadly slow”. The first known application after the reform, filed on 18 August, sat on “Pending Document Check” without moving for over two weeks.
- Finances: three months of statements with a balance no lower than 500,000 THB, which is about 20,900 CAD. In our cases the post asked for exactly three months and read the threshold off the latest balance.
- Standard document requests: the employer company’s registration papers, confirmation that the employer allows remote work without conditions, the last three pay stubs, a professional photo.
- Dependants: a spouse and children. In one Canadian case, in Vancouver, a dependant husband was asked for a marriage certificate certified by the embassy of the issuing country; whether that is the norm or a one-off request is unknown.
The criminal record certificate
The e-Visa form says “certificate of criminal record clearance”, without specifying the type. Canada has two. The name-based police record check from the local force: in Ottawa 74 CAD, 7–10 working days, applied for online. And the RCMP certified criminal record check based on fingerprints: a 25 CAD federal fee plus fingerprinting, 56 CAD in Ottawa; with no match in the database, three working days or less, with a possible match, up to 120 working days. The RCMP result arrives on paper by post only, and you scan it yourself.
Which of the two Ottawa will accept, the embassy has not said. Until there is an answer, the safer bet is the fingerprint-based RCMP check: it will be accepted either way. Legalisation at Global Affairs Canada is free, but applications there run about 25 working days behind plus postage, followed by 30 CAD at the embassy — take that route only if the post demands it. An apostille does not work for Thailand yet: the Convention only enters into force there on 28 February 2027. Before 31 August the certificate was never once requested from a Canadian.
What else matters
The embassy has no French version of its site: an applicant from Quebec reads the English page from 2024. Whether the post will accept Quebec documents in French without translation has not been announced. The e-Visa master data allows filing through agents in Ottawa, but there is no list of accredited agencies on the site. From 15 September 2026 visa-free entry for Canadian citizens drops to 30 days.
What we track here
The first decisions after 31 August: what Ottawa will accept as proof of permanent residence, which type of certificate, and what happened to the application of 18 August — an overload or a new procedure. We check the post’s page every week.
A package you have assembled yourself we check before filing — the Preflight Check: $300, a written report within two working days. Full support all the way to the visa is the Solo Route and Family Route.
The state of every consulate is on the live board, and the consulate assigned to your country is on the map.